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Saturday, May 18, 2013

I'm still in Vermont, planning to start heading west in June to the Rainbow Gathering in Montana, where I am committed to be for the launch of the moneyless tribe, inshallah. I'll probably either hitch or find a ride with somebody already going. I'm hoping to be at the Gathering at least by July 1st, and plan to put up a sign of our location, saying "Moneyless Tribe" at the Welcome Home spot. It's not really a "Rainbow" thing. That's just the best place I know of to launch the tribe - the best place, perhaps the perfect place, to show up without money. The moneyless tribe is open to anybody who will give up all money to their name and take the plunge with me, in a wandering, ecumenical concensus-led community for the purpose of doing free service as well as raising awareness. Having no house and no money to fall back on should select out the non-committed, and instill what faith really feels like. It could be a big group, or small. We don't know, and that's what makes this exciting. If your inspiration turns out to be greater than your fear, you will come, and it is for you. More details later.

Red Cry

I'm not blogging much this post. I want to devote it to our Lakota Truth Tour documentary, Red Cry (1 hour, 52 min.)

At last, the full version of the incendiary doc, Red Cry, created by my friends Carolyn Raleigh, Doug Blessington, Naomi Archer, featuring all Lakota voices, including my Lakota friends, Ohitika Naji (Leo), Canupa, Charmaine White Face, Pedro and Cassie, among others. It's showing that the genocide is happening today. It's been shown to mostly-packed audiences across the country on the Lakota's Truth Tour I participated in the past weeks.

Jesus driving moneychangers & merchants from the Temple.

Sadhu of India

Call me Suelo

I lived totally without cents since Autumn of 2000 (except for a couple months in 2001) until the Spring of 2016, when I started caring for my aging parents, managing their finances. For 15 years I didn't use or accept money or conscious barter - nor did I take food stamps or other government dole. My philosophy has been to use only what is freely given or discarded and what is already present and already running (whether or not I existed).
I don't see money as evil or good: how can illusion be evil or good? But I don't see heroin or meth as evil or good, either. Which is more addictive and debilitating, money or meth?
Attachment to illusion makes you illusion, makes you not real. Attachment to illusion is called idolatry, called addiction. I simply got tired of acknowledging as real this most common world-wide belief called money! I simply got tired of being unreal. Money is one of those intriguing things that seems real and functional because 2 or more people believe it is real & functional!